Dear JDBris,

So what's your point?

That being the Queen's husband he deserves
to receive the highest award that Australia
has to offer?

The Green vote improvised by almost 10% in the Queensland election. Some on here must be rather peeved that they look like scoring a double whammy as their favorite Queensland son 'Hard Boiled' Newman goes down the gurgler, but to add insult to injury their very own sweetie pie, Pauline (I'm not a racists) Hanson looks sunk as well. Sorry fellas you just can't take a trick at the moment.

Is Mise, are you still smarting because The Greens blasted The Shooter and Hooters Party in NSW with gun control? Your mob wanted to shoot EVERYTHING, and we wanted you to shoot NOTHING. So we compromised, you get to shoot NOTHING, can't be fairer than that.

Then they are the "usual Suspects' from the ultra right, telling us how they never did like TA anyway. Got to admire their loyalty!

Hi Paul,

Yes, the Greens' vote was around 10 %, much higher in more affluent and middle-class seats. As an ex-Marxist, I still think in terms of parties representing (or claiming to represent) classes on the whole, and the Greens clearly represent a sort of up-market petty bourgeoisie, well-educated but not engaged in productive work, dependent on publically-funded jobs, and so divorced from the real world of work, of where public money comes from and where it goes.

In other similarly affluent countries, like Britain or Germany, they also pick up around 10-12 % of the vote, like the old Democrats used to. That might be their limit.

The vote for the Labor Party in Queensland rose by a third or so, picking up thirty five-odd seats. How many seats did the Greens get, out of 67 candidates ?

Joe

Foxy, "..and the list goes on"

No it doesn't. The SA example you gave involved setting up an electoral office in a country area.

Whereas Greens Senator Larissa Waters spent $414,000 outfitting an existing high standard (executive/professional business) top floor of a pristine-condition, split-level building on Given Tce in Paddington. What about the rooftop patio with timber outdoor furniture and artificial turf?

Further, there is oversupply of offices in the suburbs surrounding hipster Paddington and at cheaper rates. There are advertisements in the paper then and now where developers and property managers will offer incentives to lease.

Larissa must not want to rub shoulders with the sort of people who vote for her, unless they are all upper middle class hipsters that is.

Further, this self-important Green had the gall not to bother even responding to The Courier Mail, either before or after publication of this article,

http://tinyurl.com/mre6ntt

Paul,

"Is Mise, are you still smarting because The Greens blasted The Shooter and Hooters Party in NSW with gun control? Your mob wanted to shoot EVERYTHING, and we wanted you to shoot NOTHING. So we compromised, you get to shoot NOTHING, can't be fairer than that."

What twaddle, are the Greens now trying to steal John Howard's thunder?
One also wonders, given the above, why David Shoebridge voted in favour of hunting in National Parks and State Forests?

I see that the blatant lie is still up on the NSW Greens' website.

"Thursday, Dec 18th, 2014
Today's revelation that the gunman at the Sydney siege had a gun licence must lead to tougher gun laws across the country.

NSW Police Commissioner Scipione must immediately explain how a man charged with such serious violent offences retained a gun licence with the NSW Police Firearms Registry.

Greens MP and Justice Spokesperson David Shoebridge said:

"....It is impossible to understand how the NSW firearms registry did not take immediate action to revoke this man's gun licence once he was charged with this offence....Why didn't Commissioner Scipione move to suspend the gunman's licence given the serious charges he faced?"

As has been pointed out these LIES were deliberately posted over two hours after the AFP had publicly corrected their mistake in advising the PM that Monis had a NSW Firearms Licence.

The terrorist in the Lyndt Cafe DID NOT have a licence and yet the Greens persist in pushing the lie.

Tell us, Paul, why is this LIE still up on the site and under 'Policies' not 'Press Releases', as you stated when you implied that it was OK to lie in a press release?
http://nsw.greens.org.au/news/nsw/sydney-siege-shows-tougher-gun-laws-needed-now

Politicians cannot tell
voters to tighten their belts - and that
the "Age of entitlement" is over - while they
themselves continue to indulge in their
generous perks. Hence the situation that
currently exists - we are stuck between a party
that wants severe and unfair cuts and voters
who worry about services. Politicians who are
deaf or indifferent to the concerns of voters -
end up paying a heavy price - as we've currently
seen in Queensland.

The voters in Queensland sent a very clear
message to the LNP. They afterall were the ones
governing - not the Greens.
Victorians sent the same message to the Liberals.
It will be NSW next - and unless things change -
the results at the next federal election will
also prove disastrous for the Liberal Party.